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in6 if they hdvo, it is less seldom that they have 

 candour eitoagh to make up any receipts but their 

 own. I spei;k wot heje of eminent farriers, uor of 

 miiny of rliose »norc regu'.arly educated, even though 

 not ('ubbed veter'nariars, for many of these I have 

 met with who are very sensible and candid. 



It would add, thciefore, very considerably to the 

 advantages derived from this Domestic Treatise, if 

 the remedies prescribed were faithfidly prepared, af 

 a moderate price, and accompanied the Work itself, 

 heing generally distribvted in the hands of every re- 

 spectable vender of medicines throughout the kingdom, 

 so as to be ivifhin the reach of every one. —There have 

 been many persons who have made and vended reme- 

 dies, as they termed them, for several diseases of the 

 horse. I do not wish to depreciate the merits of any 

 one ; but thus much I must be allowed to say, that 

 no person can pretend judiciously to compound horse 

 or other medicines who is not acquainted with che- 

 mistry ; and what knowledge some of the inventors 

 of these medicines have of this subject, let their writ- 

 ings shew. Without a knowledge of chemistry, drugs 

 may be mixed so as to produce a third substance whol- 

 ly different from their separate qualities, and which, 

 in fact, may prove poisonous. This is by no means 

 unfrequent ; and yet many of these compounders 

 jumble, without any judgment, a vast variety of ar- 

 ticles into one mixture. With regard to the com- 

 pounded medicines which I here offer, I can say of 

 them, that they have been chemically considered in 

 every point of view ; and the recipes from which they 

 are formed are the result of long experience and fre- 

 quent experiment ; most accurately compounded, so 



